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What would you do if everything you thought you could count on fell away? That question might sound like the back-cover summary of a Young Adult dystopia book, but it's quite applicable to many real-life situations. Services, platforms, and businesses close all the time, leaving nothing behind. Community projects die suddenly when all their members run out of free time. People lose their jobs and their income yet have to keep existing. People lose their partners. People lose their housing. People lose their movements. People lose their entire [[redlink to Russian empire|country economies]] and country [[redlink|demoinstitutions]]. People realize that the [[redlink to opium of the masses|things they believed in]] and the [[redlink to Vegeta effect|things they hoped for]] were never true. [[redlink to entropy|Everything dies]], and with time everything changes. | |||
Or maybe you've got it pretty good, and your greatest problem is merely that you have to maintain a project that requires a group's worth of effort as one person. | |||
Whatever the situation is that leaves you without anyone to count on, what you always must remember is that most crises a person can go through are crises on the basis of how much one is left without the ability to do as an individual, and whether or not an individual can expect other people to return and fulfill said missing tasks. The more resilient a particular thing is to the disappearance of other people and particularly the disappearance of anyone with special expertise in anything, the more robust something is period. | |||
== On MediaWiki == | |||
== On printed books == | |||
in principle, printed books should be excellent at following Apocalypse Manual, but in practice they really are not | |||
the surest repository of knowledge is one that is tiny and absolutely vast in how much information it can transport. it could well be the case that a cheap, replaceable digital device with indefinite access to battery power is superior to a collection of books. | |||
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core theme: everything should be maintainable by one person at a time, because when something fails, it's very likely there will be no more than one inexperienced individual to fix it | core theme: everything should be maintainable by one person at a time, because when something fails, it's very likely there will be no more than one inexperienced individual to fix it | ||
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Revision as of 02:05, 20 February 2025
What would you do if everything you thought you could count on fell away? That question might sound like the back-cover summary of a Young Adult dystopia book, but it's quite applicable to many real-life situations. Services, platforms, and businesses close all the time, leaving nothing behind. Community projects die suddenly when all their members run out of free time. People lose their jobs and their income yet have to keep existing. People lose their partners. People lose their housing. People lose their movements. People lose their entire country economies and country demoinstitutions. People realize that the things they believed in and the things they hoped for were never true. Everything dies, and with time everything changes.
Or maybe you've got it pretty good, and your greatest problem is merely that you have to maintain a project that requires a group's worth of effort as one person.
Whatever the situation is that leaves you without anyone to count on, what you always must remember is that most crises a person can go through are crises on the basis of how much one is left without the ability to do as an individual, and whether or not an individual can expect other people to return and fulfill said missing tasks. The more resilient a particular thing is to the disappearance of other people and particularly the disappearance of anyone with special expertise in anything, the more robust something is period.
On MediaWiki
On printed books
in principle, printed books should be excellent at following Apocalypse Manual, but in practice they really are not
the surest repository of knowledge is one that is tiny and absolutely vast in how much information it can transport. it could well be the case that a cheap, replaceable digital device with indefinite access to battery power is superior to a collection of books.
core theme: everything should be maintainable by one person at a time, because when something fails, it's very likely there will be no more than one inexperienced individual to fix it